Elizabeth Lopatto

Look, this cover of “War Pigs” is amazing, and I’m not going to pretend I’m putting it here for any other reason. (Via Rafi Schwartz.) Check out Ukandanz’s Bandcamp for more.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s director has ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prepare a framework for considering crypto as an asset in homebuying. “Pulte also instructed the agencies that their mortgage risk assessments should not require cryptocurrency assets to be converted to U.S. dollars.” Great to see crypto is getting what it paid for! If only we all could buy elections, am I right?

Kyle Chayka, who wrote for this website about the “airspace” aesthetic created by social media, is now looking into how LLM models affect creativity. He suggests that if Silicon Valley once homogenized decor — and, to some degree, created beige influencers — it may now be making LLM users less original, too.

Edward “Big Balls” Coristine resigned yesterday, Wired reports. He’d been a full-time government employee for a month. “I have heard since Elon [Musk] and Steve [Davis] have supposedly departed, they’ve terminated a lot of those that got hired,” Sahil Lavingia, a former DOGE member, told Wired. Well, who doesn’t love a fun little purge?

No? Well, let Rusty Foster fix that for you. I promise the quick progression of headlines in this newsletter will leave you feeling, if not concussed, then certainly different.

to readers of Katherine Losse’s The Boy Kings. The Financial Times makes a compelling case that loser-bro Zuck is who he has always been. Also, his feelings were very hurt when we all had a good laugh about Meta’s avatars (“Legs coming soon!”). No wonder he wants AI friends, who’ll never mock him like that.